Prince of Denmark kick

  On 5/27/2017 at 9:36 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 5/27/2017 at 5:44 PM, messiaen said:

 

  On 5/27/2017 at 5:43 PM, zoix said:

Thanks guys! Great advice here. Need to get back home tomorrow and try it all out.

 

Reverb on low end? Isn't that hard to control?

yeah, it takes subtlety. i use d16 toraverb in the box, or my eventide space. 

 

Yeah messian's description at first should be a great starting place. There's definitely a touch of reverb on the kick in the PoD track. The sub underneath the kick should be the easiest part, honestly, but it all depends on your equipment and such zoix.

 

  On 5/27/2017 at 10:08 PM, IOS said:

The kick's fundamental frequency is around 63 Hz; there's also an extra partial around 180Hz, probably boosted by EQ, which gives the BD a slight 'wooden' quality if that makes sense; and there's definitely a quick ramp

 

The sub-bass is located around 40Hz, which explains the 'beating' (the low rumbling) happening between itself and the bass drum

Thanks guys. I am just now working with an 808 sub kick layered with a club kick. Removed the highs from the 808 sub, removed lows under 100hz and highs around 1k from the club kick. Applying some slight reverb on the club kick. Will have to work more with it, but I was not far off in my guess.

I think playing with the length of the sub kick gives a nice groove. Like a little longer note every 1st beat of a bar.

Funny how important the kick is to techno tracks for me. At least ones without any basslines.

re: reverb on kicks. If you're layering several kicks, you might end EQing them so that they work together as a whole, right? So try to add verb to the mid and/or high one(s). You'll reverberate most of the timbral information without muddying the low ends to much.

Don't forget you can also use a single kick, and then send it to several tracks to process differently this or that part of the sound. It can go a long, long way too. Pretty sure a simple 909 kick could get you 90% there.

Oh and shorter (dry) kicks = more headroom for reverb tails... and every other elements of your tracks. It's so tempting to have huge, huge kicks (I instinctively go for absurdly big bassdrums à la Ryoji Ikeda myself, so guilty as charged), but it barely ever works as is in the context of a tune.

Thanks guys. Im working on it and might post a track later on.